Oak gates

[dumper]

 If you have kids and dogs for the piece of mind I would automate gate should always be shut then, plus it keeps the in-laws from suprise visits!

[trigger_andy]

2 hours ago, dumper said:

 If you have kids and dogs for the piece of mind I would automate gate should always be shut then, plus it keeps the in-laws from suprise visits!

I need the father-in-law to rebuild the scaffold and repoint the next chimney breast. I’d best forget the automation. 😁

[Johnsond]

5 hours ago, trigger_andy said:

Good point! Closest I can find after a quick google search is this. 

Andy the guy opposite to where I stay is very good at that sort of stuff, Oak is his favourite timber too, he’s always after raw materials ( Oak in particular) so a deal could easy be had I reckon.

[trigger_andy]

15 minutes ago, Johnsond said:

Andy the guy opposite to where I stay is very good at that sort of stuff, Oak is his favourite timber too, he’s always after raw materials ( Oak in particular) so a deal could easy be had I reckon.

Good to know Dave. I’ll get back to you on that if my mate does not pull his finger out. 🤣

[gobbypunk]

Hi Andy do you remember the rustic Oak gates that me and my partner made a few yrs back one big gate and a smaller garden gate they have not hardly moved at all I will find a photo and post it again we would be happy to make some gates for you .

[Woodworks]

If you go for 2 gates they need to line up near perfectly as any miss-alignment is very obvious. One large gate meeting a wide post any twist would be far better hidden. 

[Steve Bullman]

20 hours ago, trigger_andy said:

I’ve thankfully resolved most of the issues with my neighbours. We resolved the shared driveway issue by installing a 2m high fence right across the drive. 🤣 He insisted on it thinking we wanted to retain access to his drive. 🤷‍♂️ 
 

Now he’s decided he does not like the fence I put in on our boundary. The fence he asked me to build which would (I’m my mind) be the same  style as all the other fencing I’ve put around the property. So when I was getting logs in after working away for two weeks I see he’s started to clad his side of my fence with feather edge. 🙄

Do you and your neighbour not see eye to eye then? Who’d have thunk it

[doobin]

Even if you use dry oak, it’ll then move ‘the other way’ as it moistens. Oak cut and left to reach your ambient humidity would be best bet. 
 

You should be ok with a field gate style, I’m pretty sure these are made from green oak anyhow. 
 

I once had a joinery friend make a pair of oak t and g gates. From joinery spec oak. He is a clever lad, and on the CAD design he allowed an extra couple of mil between each board. Still moves like mad, he had to come back three times to plane down and re-do joints.

[Squaredy]

45 minutes ago, doobin said:

Even if you use dry oak, it’ll then move ‘the other way’ as it moistens. Oak cut and left to reach your ambient humidity would be best bet. 
 

You should be ok with a field gate style, I’m pretty sure these are made from green oak anyhow. 
 

I once had a joinery friend make a pair of oak t and g gates. From joinery spec oak. He is a clever lad, and on the CAD design he allowed an extra couple of mil between each board. Still moves like mad, he had to come back three times to plane down and re-do joints.

I never understand why people make a set of gates using tongue and groove or indeed anything similar.  And of course if it is T&G it may even be kiln dried - hopeless for outdoors.

 

If you want the privacy of no gaps then use square edge boards with about 5mm gap between each board.  Ok it is a gap, but unless you are filming dodgy movies on your drive it is private enough surely?

[dumper]

T and g is always a bad idea on gates shiplap works much better also not too many nails let the cladding move, got a pair of large courtyard gates stained black they move 1/4 inch on each board during the year 

What wood expands and contract least ?